Substacks recommended by Sue Reed

Recommended by Sue Reed

Migraine healing, health & hormones. Bringing back the balance. Gifting rebellious hope. Why? Because YOU matter. Your health matters.

Heart Leap

By Suzy Walker

Building a simple, happy, creative life that makes your heart leap. Join our Heart Leap writing community

The Quiet ADHD Club

By Gabrielle Treanor

A membership for quiet, introverted, sensitive women with ADHD (or who think they have ADHD) to help them understand their brains, and build inner calm and confidence to be their true selves.

Wild Women Writers' Salons

By Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺

Behind-the-scenes extras from Wild Women Writers' salons - take a deep dive into memoir and creative non-fiction with Victoria Bennett & guests - talking inspiration, creative practice, publishing experiences and more! Plus recordings and writing prompts!

Treading Lightly with Kelly Hargie

Writing from the shores of Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland on joy, chronic illness, walking, mountains, mothering & sisterhood. *Coming soon* My nature memoir - Nurture: A Story of Body & Belonging

The Whole Writer by Carys Shannon

What does it mean to live and thrive as a writer? Join me in search of the answers.

Flucking Flourishing

By Lisa Bolin 🌸

Mindfully giving the middle finger to ordinary midlife as we enter our Queenager era ✨

White Ink with Anna Wharton

An exclusive creative writing community blending feminist thinking with writing craft (memoir, non-fiction and fiction) and personal essays. Hosted by a Sunday Times Bestselling and Orwell Prize longlisted author.

Intelligent, insightful and a champion of women writers.

- Sue Reed

Clover Stroud: On The Way Life Feels

By Clover Stroud on The Way Life Feels

I write about the moments that make up our extraordinary lives, especially related to creativity, relationships, sobriety, motherhood, grief and joy. I like hearing other's experiences too, so we can connect through a sense of our shared humanity

with EASE

By Tanya Lynch

Join me on my journey to cultivate a life 'with ease' through journalling, as I share intimate reflections, top tips, and behind-the-scenes to my retreats. My mission is to help you channel your emotions into something more joyful and creative.

Three Tynes

By 3tynespodcast

The home of Three Tynes, including the audiovisual music-animation project and the audio 3tynespodcast about grassroots music in the moors and valleys of Northumberland and the upper South Tyne.

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

Sharpening My Pencils

By Emma Gibbs De Oliveira

Welcome to Sharpening My Pencils. The creative home of Emma Gibbs De Oliveira. From the heart insight, process and ideas. Sharing stories, connection and building community through creative practices.

The Gathering

By Allegra Chapman (she/her)

Stories shape our culture and our sense of belonging. Here, we come together to shape new stories for a new paradigm.

bimblings by Josie George

I am wide awake in a strange and wonderful world and this is what I see.

Just Write, Right

By Barrie Thomson

A public provocation to compel me to write more

Philippa Perry

Hello, I'm Philippa Perry. I'm interested in your problems and dilemmas.

NOURISH and SPARKLE through NATURE🌳

By Daisy R. Birchwood

Observations and connections with nature. Letting nature teach us about the joy of existence.

My personal Substack

My personal Substack

A gentle soul who has taught me so much

- Sue Reed

The Ladybird Purse • Talk Money to Me

By Keris Fox

Open and honest conversations about money for women, creatives, freelancers and more.

Open In The Middle

By Caro Giles

Words about a life on the edge

Alnwick Story Fest

By Suzy Walker

Alnwick Story Fest is a book and film festival in the magical town of Alnwick, the story capital of the North.

Would love to see some of you at Alnwick Story Fest! Besides me, there's David Almond, author of Skellig, Sharon Blackie of Hagitude and If Women Rose Rooted Fame, Caro Giles who who Twelve Moons, Rebecca Smith author of Rural. Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid and many more! Come on up to Northumberland and see what its got to offer!

- Sue Reed

The Literary Obsessive

By Eleanor Anstruther

A show case for my work, I stream fiction before it goes to print, publish essays & interviews, and champion indie lit fiction by increasing visibility, challenging stigma, and proving quality.

The Haven

By Gabrielle Treanor

I write about life with ADHD (suspected or diagnosed) as an introverted, sensitive and empathetic woman in midlife - one or two emails a month from a quiet, late-diagnosed ADHD coach.

Lemon Soul by Emma Simpson

By Lemon Soul served by Emma Simpson

Refreshing Perspectives & Slices of Life. "Highly Relatable", "Profoundly Human" 🍋

Lesley's Words & Musings

By Lesley Bungay

I love to play with words and ideas, putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, and seeing where my imagination takes me.

Such a kind and supportive writer.

- Sue Reed

The Celtic Creatives

By Jennifer Murphy

Dreaming Celtic Spirituality into Contemporary Life.

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Wild Quiet Folk

By Bonnie Radcliffe

An escape into the wild world around us, celebrating the curious, the quiet and the overlooked. A nature diary and record of wild walks and wild swims, threaded through with folklore, feminism and an endless quest for learning.

Miranda July

Off the cuff MJ writing/videos/picts/audio for paid subscribers and an ongoing All Fours Group Chat for everyone (not a book club! A place to talk about your own life.)

Writing Kit

By Kit de Waal

Tools, Tips, Tricks and Fuel for the Journey

Emerald Isle Gal

By Lucy Hearne Keane

Emerald Isle Gal Substack is about sharing my interests and reflections on geographical and cultural things that give meaning to my life.

Home Base with Jeff Warren

A friendly community with free guided audio meditations every week, and mini-essays on the baffle-wonder-challenge of somehow existing.

Happy Endings

By Keris Fox

Writing, reading, music, cooking, procrastinating, flailing. And cat pics.

Lia’s Living Almanac

By Lia Leendertz

Join me to mark and celebrate the seasons as they change

Sparkle on Substack

By Claire Venus ✨

Master Substack, write, build your DREAM business with joy! Global Top 10 Publication. Twice monthly space holding (co-working, workshops, teaching). Weekly chats, podcasts. A bespoke membership to help you stay creative and grow on Substack! 💫

From Midlife With Love

By Katherine Baldwin

Supporting you to love yourself, find and keep healthy love and create a joyful life by sharing insights from a 22+ year self-discovery journey. I'm a love, dating and relationship coach, midlife mentor, TEDx speaker and author of 'How to Fall in Love'.

THE EMPRESS

By The Empress

Dedicated to the art and science of midlife women thriving, THE EMPRESS brings content, community, and agency to millions of menopausal women through our networks of networks and deep partnerships with cultural changemakers.

Encourage Meant

By 'Encourage Meant'

A regular burst of positivity inspired by The Encouragement Manifesto

Psyche's Nest

By Sally Gillespie

Celebrating belonging in our living world, cultivating heart and commitment for ecological care and connection through attention, practices and stories.

The Heretical Forager

By Robin Harford

Challenges everything you think you know about wild food. No nature-as-resource nonsense. No extractive Instagram foraging fantasies. Just honest, direct, counterintuitive writing rooted in kinship with plants and deep ecological relationships.

The Unhurried Reader

Considered posts about books read with care.

Too Much by Nicola Washington

🌱 For writers who want ease, not overwhelm in your Instagram book marketing. Stay visible on Instagram and keep your audience growing, one simple step at a time.

Harry's Meanderings

By Harry Watson

An eclectic mix of offerings that reflect my life in northeast England (and sometimes beyond)

Harry gives some wonderful snapshots of north east culture in his meanderings through the Toon

- Sue Reed

The Cure for Sleep with Tanya Shadrick

Explore short true soul stories written by readers of Tanya Shadrick’s The Cure for Sleep: a memoir of what it takes & costs to make a larger life

WildWomanLife

By Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺

Insights and small seeds from where the wild weeds grow